The newest title in Barron’s Pocket Art Guides series demonstrates various ways to render different forms and shapes when working with color media, including oils, watercolors, acrylics, inks, pastels, and colored pencils. Exercises offer students practice in rendering basic geometric shapes, such as cubes and cylinders. They teach students to outline shapes with paint and brush, ink, or chalks. Titles in Barron’s Pocket Art Guides series present practical advice and instruction to art students and devoted amateurs. Each book focuses on a specific aspect of painting or drawing and includes tips that even experienced professionals will find helpful. The books are filled with captioned color illustrations and include notes on how famous artists solved specific problems.(0764165763)